Predation Pressure on Invertebrate Sentinel Prey Depends on Distance to Forest Edge and Seasonality in Kenyan Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plantations

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7837878.v1" target="_blank" >10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7837878.v1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Predation Pressure on Invertebrate Sentinel Prey Depends on Distance to Forest Edge and Seasonality in Kenyan Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plantations

Original language description

Tea is a global commodity, and due to its way of preparation pesticide residues cannot be tolerated. This underlines the importance of non-chemical pest control. Kenya is the third largest global tea producer but the potential of natural enemies against tea pests is unknown. We used artificial caterpillars made of non-drying green plasticine to quantify attack rates by predators on tea canopies at different distances from plantation edges and in the nearby native forest during the wet and dry seasons in three tea-growing mountain regions of Kenya, Kericho, Gatamaiyu and Kakamega. The artificial sentinel caterpillars were readily attacked by arthropods, birds, and sporadically by small mammals. During an exposure time of 24 h, the overall attack rate was 25.0%d-1. Natural enemy activity was higher in the dry (35.3%d-1) than in the wet (16.7%d-1) season. The highest predation pressure was measured in the native forest (41.7%d-1) and gradually decreased with increasing distances into the tea plantation (to 8.3%d-1 at 40 m from the edge). The rate of decrease from the forest edge towards the centre of the tea plantation was steeper for birds than for arthropods, indicating that birds were more reluctant to use this habitat. The potential for natural pest control in Kenyan tea plantations is high, but planting native trees is recommended especially if bird activity inside tea plantations is to be encouraged.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Insects

ISSN

2075-4450

e-ISSN

2075-4450

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001580078400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105017319133